Quotes about Belief

When it comes to dealing with God, most of us spend considerable time trying our own hands at either being or making gods. Jesus blocks the way. Jesus is not a god of our own making and he is certainly not a god designed to win popularity contests.

Jesus wasn't so much handing out information as reshaping our imaginations.

There is a large, leisurely center to existence where God must be deeply pondered, lovingly believed.

There is an enormous gap between what we think we can do and what God calls us to do.

But if we take the energies that make for aspiration and remove God from the picture, replacing him with our own crudely sketched self-portrait, we end up with ugly arrogance.

Many claim to have been born again, but the evidence for mature Christian discipleship is slim.

Whether we like it or not, the moment we confess Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, that is, from the time we become a Christian, we are at the same time a member of the Christian church.

The fact that we are a family of faith does not mean we are one big happy family. The people we encounter as brothers and sisters in faith are not always nice people. They do not stop being sinners the moment they begin believing in Christ.

It is wicked to tell a person a lie about God because, if we come to believe the wrong things about God, we will think the wrong things about ourselves, and we will live meanly or badly.

The Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother; his own heart is uncertain, his brother's is sure.

Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love unconditionally.

We know very well that we are not set right with God by rule-keeping but only through personal faith in Jesus Christ.